Eurogamer: Editor's Blog: About The Destiny Review

Eurogamer: Hello! As you may already have seen elsewhere, we in the press have had no prior access to Bungie's online shooter Destiny before its global launch date tomorrow. There was no review event, and though review copies have been sent out, they're useless until the servers are turned on.

As a result, we won't have a review to share with you today or tomorrow. And please bear with us, because we want to test the game thoroughly before publishing our verdict. How long our review will take exactly, we're not sure - that will become apparent as we play the game this week. But we're not going to rush it.

THIS is how reviews should be handled. Those reviews that get posted tomorrow or the day after will be completely invalid as the servers are just about to go up today. No one should be out there reviewing a game they had little to no time with.

Lol @ the disagrees.. this is an MMO, any credible review site wouldn't even dream of reviewing an MMO in it's first week of launch. While Destiny isn't going to be such a time sink, I think it would be pretty unprofessional to publish a review before people have a proper chance to explore Vault of Glass or whatever it's called which means we shouldn't be seeing reviews until some time next week at the earliest.

Also, its not that serious. Reviews are coming today. Its coming today. I played the beta and I enjoyed it so while some are going to have a baby over this, reviews for something I already tried are futile. I'm gonna go play now lol.

this is complete crap!!!! if this was EA, or an EA title trying to pull off this crap (hold off turning on servers for reviewers until the launch date), it would get MURDERED by these so-called "journalists".... they need to let folks review it so they'll know exactly what the hell they're buying.. gamers are so damn fickle these days to the point where its pathetic..

Agree, i dont know where the idea of it being an mmo even came from. It shares some traits but from what i can tell you are never in 1 big world with 100s of players. Other than the hub area i only ever saw 3 people at a time in game?

"Let me guess you think a reviewer needs to ding 20 and complete all of the content to give an accurate opinion?"

Just like movies / books reviewer where you MUST watch the movie / read the book until the end to judge if the movie / book really good or not.

So yeah, video game reviewers are no different. First, they MUST finish their games before they reviewed it. If they didn't finish it first than HOW the fuck they can get the full pros and cons and give accurate info to their readers???

And that is one of the biggest problem for video games reviewer this day. I've seen the mentality to "put the review first before anyone do it so we can get the biggest click" while the reviewer only play a couple of hours are very disgusting.

That's why i rarely trust video game reviewer this days until i get my hands on the game and finished it by myself.

this is BULLSHIT!! if this was EA, or an EA title trying to pull off this crap, it would get MURDERED by these so-called "journalists".... they need to let folks review it so they'll know exactly what the hell they're buying..

Only about 2 days are needed. The first 10h day will allow them to get through the entire campaign. The second day they can get a feel for strikes, public events, and multiplayer. I mean you play one strike, you've basically played them all.

Beyond that you have the (artificially) longer raids, but those are just like strikes except with cheap enemy tactics, mechanics, and artificial matchmaking constraints over top of it.